Word Meanings - WILLYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow. Willying machine. Same as 1st Willow, 2

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• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• WILLOW-WORT
  Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family.
• WILLY NILLY
  See WILL
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• WILLOWISH
  Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton.
• WILLOWED
  Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.
• PROCESSIONAL
  A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions. J. Gregory. 2. A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.
• COTTON BATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• COTTONWOOD
  An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
• COTTONARY
  Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
• COTTONSEED MEAL
  A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.
• COTTONOUS
  Resembling cotton. Evelyn.
• WILLOWY
  1. Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray. 2. Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• TOWILLY
  The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
  A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
• WATER WILLOW
  An American aquatic plant with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.